DevOpsDays KC 2019

Kansas City, MO
October 24, 2019, October 25, 2019

DevOpsDays KC will be held in Kansas City, MO at Plexpod Westport Commons on Thursday October 24th, 2019 and Friday October 25th, 2019.

If you’re out-of-town and would like to submit a talk, great! If your talk is selected and you will need lodging, we will try our best to fund a portion (if not all) of your travel and lodging needs.

More information on the event can be found at: https://devopsdayskc.org

Follow on twitter for information about the event: twitter.com/devopsdayskc

Contact the organizers at: organizers@devopsdayskc.org

CFP Description

The Call for Proposals is your chance to be a more active part in the conference, and place your mark on the DevOps community. We encourage a wide range of original material, with a focus on new presenters.

Types of proposals we are looking for:

Ignite Sessions: 5 minute, auto forwarding talk

Presentations: A 30 minute talk on topic of your choice, with some time for questions.

Workshops: A 60-90 minute interactive session on topic of your choice, with some time for questions

General Guidelines:

Be concise.

Add as much detail as you can.

Multiple entries are welcome.

Attempt to not identify yourself, we prefer to judge based on content.

All presentations must conform to the code of conduct.

Preferably submit via this web app, however we also will accept submissions by email: organizers@devopsdayskc.org

Ideas:

This is what we would like to know. Do you have an answer?

The DevOps movement has been around for a few years now: Did anyone find out if it really helped your organization? Are there numbers for this?

Did the culture of DevOps spread to other parts of your company? If not, why?

Is DevOps the magic silver bullet which solved all your problems? What are the problems it didn’t solve (although you thought it would)?

Were there unexpected problems during your cultural change into DevOps?

Did the required skill-set of people change after starting to do things DevOps-Style?

Did people leave because you “went DevOps”? Was this good or bad or both?

Have there been technical changes after the culture in your team changed?

Did the change affect the business/sales/marketing side?

And of course: Has DevOps affected you personally? How do you feel about the change it brought to your work?

The “classic” DevOps questions are of course not fully answered, either…

What is the role of QA/Tester in DevOps, how do we integrate QA in the continuous delivery process

The impact DevOps has on traditional security/auditing/change control

Building dashboards because #monitoringsucks

The impact of DevOps on HR policies, and the hiring process

Help prove that DevOps can scale beyond the 5-8 person web startups, we love traditional IT enterprise cases

With all the automation, data is still a hard thing to handle, how does it affect DBAs, backup strategies, …

If you’d like some more specific topic examples…

DevOps release management

Integrating security into the DevOps conversation

How to handle budgets for DevOps initiatives

DevOps and Working Remotely

Value Stream Mapping

Having DevOps make #monitoringsucks less

Help!

Mentoring

We encourage new and seasoned speakers. If you’re interested in working with a mentor to develop an idea into a session or ignite, please reach out via organizers@devopsdayskc.org. We will do our best to provide options for mentorship pairing. At the very least we’ll do our best to provide mentorship ourselves. :)

Travel Assistance

Please let us know if you need assistance with travel costs including hotel, flight, and parking. This will not affect our decision-making one way or the other, but is good to know as we finalize our budget.